Share your feedback on the Let’s Talk Adjustments campaign
The RCVS, in collaboration with our mental health project, Mind Matters Initiative, ran the Let’s Talk Adjustments campaign from February to August 2025.
The campaign aimed to encourage open conversations about reasonable adjustments in the veterinary professions, helping to create more inclusive, supportive workplaces and learning environments for disabled and neurodivergent people, and those with health conditions.
Share your feedback on Let’s Talk Adjustments
To help ensure our future work is as effective and impactful as possible, we would love to know what you thought of the Let's Talk Adjustments campaign.
Your views will help us understand what worked well and shape future campaigns and activities across the profession.
Please take a few minutes to complete our short survey by 11.59pm on Sunday 5 July 2026.
How your feedback will be used
Unless you choose to provide your details, this survey is anonymous. All responses will be stored securely in line with RCVS data protection policies. Findings from the survey may be used to inform our future work. Any personal information will be deleted after 12 months. To find out more about how we use and protect your information, please see our privacy statement below.
Get in touch
If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected].
Let’s Talk Adjustments evaluation privacy statement
In line with UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this privacy notice for research participants explains how and why we are using your personal data for the Let’s Talk Adjustments evaluation. This includes who will have access to your personal data, how your data will be used, stored and deleted, and who you can contact with any queries or complaints.
What is the legal basis for processing my data?
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) is the data controller for this research project. As part of the RCVS Charter, the RCVS may undertake any activities it considers necessary or expedient to help it to achieve its objectives. These activities include monitoring developments in the veterinary professions and in the provision of veterinary services.
The RCVS has used your personal data to contact you about this survey on a legitimate interests' lawful basis, in line with the Charter. In order fully to understand what is happening in veterinary workplaces, it is necessary to ask veterinary professionals.This is the justification for conducting this short survey.
As you take part in the survey, you will be asked to provide your consent for the RCVS to process any personal data you provide for this evaluation. This data will be collected on the lawful basis of consent.
Taking part in the research is voluntary. If you would like to opt out of reminders to take part in this evaluation, please email [email protected]. If you have any questions about your personal data, please email [email protected].
How will we use your registration data?
The RCVS research team works separately from the Registration team and from the teams’ upholding Standards. We use your registration data to contact you for research purposes, but we do not put the information you give us during your research participation into the RCVS database or Register.
Who will have access to my personal data?
The RCVS will contact randomly selected veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses directly by email. The RCVS will provide information on the research and why it is being undertaken. Responses will be collected anonymously. This means that it will not be possible to identify you from the responses you provide.
However, if you gave your explicit permission to be quoted or contacted, your responses may be linked to your name and contact details until 1 June 2027.
Partial data may be included in analysis and data sharing, so you do not have to fully complete the survey for your data to be analysed. If you do not wish for your data to be analysed by the RCVS research team, please do not complete the survey.
All anonymised data will be stored by the RCVS on an encrypted server with access restricted solely to members of the research team.
How will my data be treated?
RCVS researchers will analyse the Let’s Talk Adjustments evaluation data and provide an aggregated and anonymous report that summarises the main findings. Data will be used for research purposes only and will not be viewed by anyone outside of the research team.
Who can I contact if I would like to withdraw my survey data?
If you did not provide your name and email address, you will not be able to withdraw from the evaluation because we will not be able to identify your data. If you did provide your name and email address, you may withdraw your data from the evaluation until 1 September 2026. After this date, your data may already have been used for analysis and it will not be possible to withdraw it. However, we will, as far as possible, remove your name or quotes from any marketing materials. To withdraw, please email [email protected].
Who can I contact with a query about how my data will be used?
If you have any questions about how your data will be used, please email [email protected].
Who can I contact if I have a complaint?
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with us. You can do so by emailing the Data Protection Officer at [email protected]. You can also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.